Where: Riley County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 28.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Falls City Limestone Formation (Admire Group), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The authors placed the Falls City in the Permian, but more recent data indicates it is late Carboniferous.
•The Noginskian Stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: M. R. Mudge, E. L. Yochelson, R. C. Douglas, H. Duncan, H. L. Strimple, M. Gordon, Jr., and D. H. Dunkle. 1962. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 323:1-213 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11717: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 31.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
Derbyia cf. crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Gastropoda | |
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail | |
Amphiscapha muricata Knight 1934 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata Shumard 1855 clam
Septimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam
Septimyalina cf. burmai Newell 1942 clam | |
Aviculopecten nodocostata scallop
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop | |